Radioactive material supports many activities that improve lives around the world. Only a limited number of specialized facilities produce these materials, so safe and secure tran ...

An Iranian radiation sterilisation plant has been "severely damaged" in a US-Israeli attack. Such facilities use gamma rays - typically from a cobalt-60 source - to sterilise medical devices, ...

When a nuclear plant reaches the end of its life or is damaged, it must be decommissioned. This process can take more than 20 ...

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Astronomers have used the XRISM spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a century-old ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding ...

A naked-eye star’s 50-year mystery is solved—its bizarre X-rays come from a hidden, feeding white dwarf.

A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...

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If disaster strikes and you’re tasked with clearing up some radioactive ruins, hardy robots are far better suited for the ...

The IAEA is inviting research organizations to join a new project that will use machine learning to better predict structural changes in polymers caused by ionizing radiation. Rad ...